UID:
almahu_9947415316702882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511571060 (ebook)
Content:
After World War Two, Japan attained economic growth but suffered environmental disaster. In response to massive protest in the 1960s and 1970s, the Japanese government rapidly reduced the worst air and water pollution. Jeffrey Broadbent's case study of industrial growth and pollution in a rural Japanese prefecture explains this response while testing political, social movement and environmental theory. The state, conservative political party and big business pushed rampant growth until movements posed a political and disruptive challenge. Then, the elites passed some pollution control, but also demobilized local protest, quashed discontent, and prevented the formation of national environmental groups. Without the protest threat, business stymied other government pollution-control plans. The interaction of material, institutional and cultural factors, especially informal institutions, explained the dominance of actors and the pattern of outcomes. Through this syncretic lens in a non-Western setting, this study refines our theories of the state, protest movements, political process, and environmental problems.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Growth versus the environment in Japan
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Visions and realities of growth
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Protest and policy change
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Movement startups
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Protest against Landfill No. 8
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Under the machine
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The Governor gives in
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Contested consensus
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Pyrrhic victories
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Power, protest, and political change
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Meso networks and macro structures
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Oita Prefecture and Japan National Growth and Environmental Key Events: 1955 1980
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Pollution legislation at prefectural and national levels, 1964 1985.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521564243
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571060
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